Amendments
This amendment would abolish the practice and institution of slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Union general turned 18th president of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This hate group, would start to emerge due to the creations of laws and amendments that were pro-African-American.
What is the KKK?
This faction of the Republican party was much more severe in their beliefs for Reconstruction and punishment for secessionist states. They would eventually take the torch of Reconstruction away from President Johnson.
This amendment gave voting rights to black Americans.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The 2nd vice president of Lincoln, who would resume his role as president after his assassination in 1865.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These unconstitutional laws restricted African-Americans rights in response to the 13th Amendment.
What are black codes?
The nickname given to southern sympathizers who were also Congressman during and after the Civil War.
What is "copperhead"?
This amendment gave citizenship to everyone born on American soil and equal protections of the law to all citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment
This is the infamous assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
These tests, made to target illiterate African Americans, would be given out at polls to test a person's ability to read and write, and failure of these tests would prohibit them from being able to vote.
What are literacy tests?
What is the organization created by Congress to help newly freed slaves get back on their feet?
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Consisting of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, these amendments were nicknamed this after the conflict just before their creation.
What are the Civil War Amendments?
This theater is the infamous theater in which president Lincoln would be shot and killed in.
What is Ford's Theater?
This deal, which would ultimately end Reconstruction, determined the presidential election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This nickname was given to northern Republicans who came down to help newly freed slaves get back on their feet by southerners.
What is "carpetbaggers"?
While voting rights would be expanded during the Civil War Amendments, it didn't apply to all Americans until this amendment including women in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Often forgotten about, this was the next president after Abraham Lincoln to be shot and killed less than a year into his presidency.
Who is James A. Garfield?
This Republican from Ohio would win the presidential election of 1876 due to the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?